The story of pie

Posted on October 7, 2015

Just a simple post this week. I am off to a marketing conference for the rest of the week and didn’t have a chance to prepare anything deeper.

Here is a picture of some pies I baked over the weekend. Or rather, I baked them while my Mom supervised. Ever since we had the stove on fire incident a few years ago, I don’t think she trusts me in the kitchen!

It was a wonderful way to spend a rainy afternoon. I love the fall and I love apples. Plain apples are fine, but they taste even better when they are in a pie. I had just bought a little baby boo pumpkin gourd too, so I had to add that to the picture. Actually the baby boo is for one of our chipmunks.

I gave one of the pies to my cousin and I brought the other one home. Mr. Ken’s eyes lit up when he saw the pie and he immediately took it out of my hands. I like to think that he was so excited to be eating something that I had baked, but it was more that he loves sweets, any sweets.

Later that night I went to cut a small piece for myself, but half the pie was already gone! Mr. Ken claimed no knowledge of what happened to all the pie.

hi Nancy, I checked your previous blog posts and the pies looked prettier 🙂 these sound good, is it the uglier the tastier with apple pies or some new ingredient – like more butter or something? I adore American apple pie but have never tried to bake one. Should I?

Autumn here in Switzerland brings out the pumpkins, and so anything with pumpkin is a favourite. Also, when the colder weather sets in it’s time to get out the fondue pot or the Raclette machine. Apple pie is also a favourite, but then it doesn’t need to be autumn for that one to come out of the oven! 😉

Here it is called Apfelwähe; you might not recognize it as pie! It has a thick custard (egg mixture) poured over the single crust layered with apple slices and baked. Another popular Wähe is with apricots.